ESP8266 Internet of Things Cookbook: Over 50 recipes to help you master ESP8266 functionality

267 Pages·2017·5.268 MB·English

by  Marco Schwartz

ESP8266 Internet of
Things Cookbook
Over 50 recipes to help you master the ESP8266's
functionality
Marco Schwartz
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
ESP8266 Internet of Things Cookbook
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About the Author
Marco Schwartz is an electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and blogger. He has a master's
degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Supélec, France, and a master's
degree in micro engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),
Switzerland.
He has more than five years of experience working in the domain of electrical engineering.
Marco's interests center around electronics, home automation, the Arduino and Raspberry Pi
platforms, open source hardware projects, and 3D printing. He has several websites about the
Arduino, including the open home automation website, which is dedicated to building home
automation systems using open source hardware. Marco has written another book on home
automation and the Arduino, called Arduino Home Automation Projects. He has also written
a book on how to build Internet of Things projects with the Arduino, called Internet of Things
with the Arduino Yun, by Packt Publishing.
About the Reviewer
Catalin Batrinu graduated from the Politehnica University of Bucharest in Electronics,
Telecommunications, and Information Technology. He has worked as a software developer in
telecommunications for the past 16 years.
He started working with old protocols to the latest network protocols and technologies so he
caught all the transformations in telecommunication industry.
He has implemented many telecommunication protocols, from access adaptations and
backbone switches to high capacity carrier-grade switches on various hardware platforms,
such as Wintegra and Broadcom.
Internet of Things came as a natural evolution for him, and now he collaborates with different
companies to construct the world of the future that will make our life more comfortable
and secure.
Using ESP8266, he has prototyped devices such as irrigation controller, smart sockets,
window shutters, lighting control using Digital Addressable Lighting Control (DALC), and
environment control, all of them being controlled directly from a mobile application over the
cloud. Even an MQTT broker with a bridging and web socket server has been developed for
the ESP8266. Soon, all these devices will be part of our daily life, so we will all enjoy their
functionality.
You can read his blog at http://myesp8266.blogspot.com.
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Table of Contents
Preface v
Chapter 1: Configuring the ESP8266 1
Introduction 1
Setting up the Arduino development environment for the ESP8266 2
Choosing an ESP8266 board 4
Required additional components 9
Uploading your first sketch to the ESP8266 15
Connecting the ESP8266 to your local Wi-Fi network 17
Connecting the ESP8266 to a cloud server 20
Troubleshooting basic ESP8266 issues 24
Chapter 2: Your First ESP8266 Projects 27
Introduction 27
Functionalities of the ESP8266 28
Reading digital signals 32
Reading analog signals 35
Controlling an LED 37
Dimming an LED 39
Controlling a servo motor 41
Measuring data from a digital sensor 44
Controlling an OLED screen 48
Troubleshooting basic ESP8266 issues 55
Chapter 3: More ESP8266 Functions 57
Introduction 57
Discovering the advanced functions of the ESP8266 58
Using libraries on the ESP8266 60
Discovering the filesystem of the ESP8266 65
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